Defending Constantine

Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom is a 2010 book by Peter Leithart which examines Constantine the Great and Christianity. Leithart argues that Constantine was a real Christian, and takes issue with John Howard Yoder's view on Constantinianism, arguing that there was no Constantinian shift.^[1][2]

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Author	Peter Leithart
Subject	Constantine the Great and Christianity
Publisher	IVP Academic
Publication date	2010
Pages	373
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Defending Constantine provoked a book-length response: Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate, edited by John D. Roth (Wipf and Stock, 2013).^[3]

1. ^ Hauerwas, Stanley (12 October 2010). "A review of Defending Constantine". The Christian Century. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
2. ^ Furry, Timothy (1 September 2010). "Review of Peter Leithart's, Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom". Journal of Lutheran Ethics. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
3. ^ Roth, John D. (3 June 2014). "Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate". The Christian Century. Retrieved 26 September 2018.

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